Thinking Forward

Think, don't sink! There is power in thoughtfulness. Every advancements in life can be said to be a product of thoughtful actions. The act of thinking is not as simple as it sounds. It's serious business to think through with tangible outcomes. Great things do not happen by happenstance. Acting without thinking is being irrational and being irrational is being unwise. Consequently, thinking meditatively towards a productive course of action requires self-discipline, persistence and progressive evolution.

Thinkers are kings of life voyages. What marks great leaders out is their ability to think right and act right - the willpower for success. Padre Medium posit that "a way of developing willpower is to pay attention to what goes on in your head, seeking to think good and rational thoughts rather than just giving in to subconscious desires". If you want to make giant strides in life, you need to improve and develop staying power with respect to thinking abilities.

Your mind is the mine-field for greatness. Cambridge dictionary defines forward thinking as "the act of thinking about and planning for the future, not just the present". Are you afraid of trying new things? Are you excited to explore what tomorrow looks like? Do you feel the urge in aspiring to leave a worthy legacy behind? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you are a good candidate for learning the act of thinking forward. The excitement of forward thinking is in the futuristic approach. Other than learning from past failures or events to define future outcomes, thinking backward is counter-productive. In actual fact, getting stuck in the past is the bane of forward thinking.

Our thoughts define us. Training your mind to conceive ideas and tuning its antenna to capture the snap-shots and processing such further for future development is the pre-requisite for successful living. Thinking right can help you solve difficult problems; Thinking forward will help you deliver the world of difficult problems. It was Mo Abudu - described by Forbes as "Africa's Most Successful Woman" - who usually ends her talk show "Moments with Mo" with this wise saying - "If you can think it, you can do it". I dare say that if you can perfect the habit of thinking forward, you are the real deal. I wish you all the best in year 2020 - the golden year!

Winning Mentality

Have you ever been faced with a challenge that seems insurmountable in life? Such difficult moments that took so much from you in terms of energy, emotion, time and sometimes huge cost? I mean one in which you refused to give up despite the odds. You succeeded because you endured. You might even have probably tried a different approach to overcome the obstacle. What matters most is that you won fair and square. Is there an end to challenges in life? The answer in "no"!

As you grow older, you get to understand that challenges are meant to lift you up and promote you to the next phase. You see, life will keep throwing different challenges at you at every bends and turns in your 'thankless' journey. There are dimensions to life. It's often said that life is a journey beginning at birth and ending at death. What transpires in-between determines what legacy you will leave behind. The very first book that motivated me to dare the odds that life throws at me is the one by Robert Schuller. I was so fortunate to read such powerful book early in life and the principles that I gleaned from the book has remained with me till date. The title of the book is "Tough times never lasts but tough people do!". The secret of winners is in staying the course.

Indeed, I can attest to the fact that tough times never lasts. There is always an end to the vicissitude of life. It depends so much on your disposition to these issues. You can choose to be a victim in life or to be a victor. It's a matter of the choice you make when faced with the odds of life. You won't leave much to be desired in life if you chicken out in the face of challenges. Can you see possibilities where none exists? Are you able to face the storms of life without fear? Can you set your gaze on success and be fully determined to reach your goal even when the obstacles are fierce? It's only the brave that can bring dreams into realities and turn failure to success. 

Friend, deep within you, can you ever say that you've learnt how to "set-forward" from set-back enough? Any guarantee that you will overcome the next challenge? Let me leave you with this thoughts - what will you give up to win? What will you let go to gain lofty heights that money cannot buy? What will it take for you to be a success and not a failure? Are you about giving up? Remember this in the words of Robert that "quitters never win and winners never quits". Have a great day! I am looking forward to hear your testimony. Stay blessed and keep winning!!